Sean Kingston's song being banned??

ghostdancer · 22-09-2007 08:01PM

jb91 wrote:

Because skangers are the only people that buy CDs. Everyone else goes to cheap online music stores that don't count towards the Irish charts.

eh what? have you been in a music shop lately? it's generally full of 20-somethings who've no idea about music who are shopping for "that one they heard on the radio" and 16 year old middle class kids buying the latest release from the pop/r'n'b/faux-"emo" flavour-of-the-month group with daddy's credit card.

ghostdancer · 22-09-2007 08:03PM

rossie1977 wrote:

well the bbc banned this little number back in 1982 so http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH7pOUm5s9k

let's not forget, this little ditty by the one of the world's most loved musical sons.

jb91 · 22-09-2007 08:06PM

ghostdancer wrote:

eh what? have you been in a music shop lately?

Nope, as I said I go to cheap online music stores, as do most of my mates. But skangers are the only people I've seen with CDs recently and they've always been crappy R&B shíte so...

Schlemm · 22-09-2007 11:09PM

If they can ban this song, then I say we should ban our great leader Bertie an taoiseach for telling us whingers to kill ourselves as he said this summer, not to mention the rest of his bull****...:rolleyes:

ruskin · 23-09-2007 02:24PM

It is a worrying trend to see such talk of banning and censorship in this day and age. It is not too unlike what measures flourished under Nazi Germany. There is no way Sean Kingstons song should be banned, and I am absolutely disgusted with some of the radio stations that have given in to a pathetic group of worry warts and moaners. If I see something on tv I do not like, I simply switch the channel. If you are so stupid that you think one word in a good song may cause people to commit suicide, then you have a warped view on the world. We live in a free nation of free speech and so that song should not be banned. Otherwise we are hippocrites, saying we believe in free speech, but we dont defend it.

Nala · 23-09-2007 02:44PM

Anyone who has not heard the song, put on Spin 1038- it is usually played 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th and 9th in their "10 Spin Hits in a Row", in between Rihanna or Fergie. It's on right now!

ali.c · 23-09-2007 02:55PM

Schlemm wrote:

If they can ban this song, then I say we should ban our great leader Bertie an taoiseach for telling us whingers to kill ourselves as he said this summer, not to mention the rest of his bull****...:rolleyes:

QFT, he is a tool

IMHO suicide is a big issue in Ireland and i would like to see more proactive things done in terms of suicide prevention. I dont see how banning this song is going to help... it seems to me to be more of a reactionary thing with no real thought behind it.

Terry · 23-09-2007 03:24PM

ruskin wrote:

It is a worrying trend to see such talk of banning and censorship in this day and age. It is not too unlike what measures flourished under Nazi Germany. There is no way Sean Kingstons song should be banned, and I am absolutely disgusted with some of the radio stations that have given in to a pathetic group of worry warts and moaners. If I see something on tv I do not like, I simply switch the channel. If you are so stupid that you think one word in a good song may cause people to commit suicide, then you have a warped view on the world. We live in a free nation of free speech and so that song should not be banned. Otherwise we are hippocrites, saying we believe in free speech, but we dont defend it.

There is no law in Ireland granting free speech.

rossie1977 · 23-09-2007 03:33PM

Terry wrote:

There is no law in Ireland granting free speech.

Freedom of speech: Guaranteed by Article 40.6.1. However, this may not be used to undermine "public order or morality or the authority of the State". Furthermore, the constitution explicitly requires that the publication of "blasphemous, seditious, or indecent matter" be a criminal offence

Terry · 23-09-2007 03:49PM

I stand corrected.

JC 2K3 · 23-09-2007 07:06PM

BrandonBlock wrote:

Thank god for Phantom fm is all I'll say.

Why? So you can listen to crap being churned out daily by the pop music industry WITH GUITARS?

Naikon · 23-09-2007 07:08PM

Who cares if it is banned?.
The song is utter ****:mad:.

Naikon · 23-09-2007 07:10PM

rossie1977 wrote:

well the bbc banned this little number back in 1982 so http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH7pOUm5s9k

Who can forget this banned number:D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPLrXFw76Qg

OctavarIan · 23-09-2007 07:10PM

They were just making an example out of the song. With the deaths in recent weeks they have to be seen as doing something. So they take a popular* song and overact on it.

*I don't know if the song was that popular to begin with. Probably is now though.

Terry · 23-09-2007 07:11PM

JC 2K3 wrote:

Why? So you can listen to crap being churned out daily by the pop music industry WITH GUITARS?

Maybe he likes that.

Terry · 23-09-2007 07:22PM

Naikon wrote:

Who can forget this banned number:D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPLrXFw76Qg

A homegrown one which was banned in America.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POl4vFp-5os

JC 2K3 · 23-09-2007 07:24PM

Terry wrote:

Maybe he likes that.

Indeed.

Naikon · 23-09-2007 07:32PM

Terry wrote:

A homegrown one which was banned in America.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POl4vFp-5os

"I don't like Mondays":)

Sinfonia · 23-09-2007 07:48PM

OctavarIan wrote:

They were just making an example out of the song. With the deaths in recent weeks they have to be seen as doing something. So they take a popular* song and overact on it.

*I don't know if the song was that popular to begin with. Probably is now though.

AFAIK it was already number 1 before they decided to ban it on FM104

Terry · 23-09-2007 07:53PM

JC 2K3 wrote:

Indeed.

You feebly attempted to put someone down because of their musical tastes.
I called you on it.
No need to get all pissy about it.

Boston · 23-09-2007 07:57PM

Tha Gopher wrote:

Nirvana were even worse and more pointless than that american Ja-fake-an Kingston. Damn right they should have been banned, its not lyricism, its look at me Im being controversial

Yes kurt loved being in the spot light and having media attention.

Wertz · 23-09-2007 07:59PM

Now if only Kingston would eat the business end of a sawn-off...

Tha Gopher · 23-09-2007 07:59PM

They were still sh1t, hyped and irrelevant, no matter whether he did/didnt like the media.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_cobain

"In a February 1993 interview with The Advocate, Cobain claimed that he used to spray paint "God is Gay" on pickup trucks around Aberdeen. Cobain also claimed he was arrested in 1985 for spray-painting "HOMO SEX RULES" on a bank.[9] However, Aberdeen police records show that the phrase for which he was arrested was actually "Ain't got no how watchamacallit." with every "t" written four times larger than the other letters."

yep, not an attention seeking bone in his body :rolleyes:

rossie1977 · 23-09-2007 08:00PM

one of the best songs of the 1990s got into major hotwater over its content and video, not quite sure if it was banned though, probably was ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PSvjhzn6U8

JC 2K3 · 23-09-2007 08:04PM

Terry wrote:

You feebly attempted to put someone down because of their musical tastes.
I called you on it.
No need to get all pissy about it.

Actually, I called him on his attempt to put people down over their music tastes and you seem to have missed the point completely.

And in terms of putting people down, it could be my imagination and perhaps you just do it to everyone, but you seem to do it to me a lot for whatever reason.

Terry · 23-09-2007 08:20PM

JC 2K3 wrote:

Actually, I called him on his attempt to put people down over their music tastes and you seem to have missed the point completely.

And in terms of putting people down, it could be my imagination and perhaps you just do it to everyone, but you seem to do it to me a lot for whatever reason.

Brandon Block wrote:

Thank god for Phantom fm is all I'll say.

I don't see anything in that post which is aimed directly at other people.
He's simply professing his preference for Phantom fm.

As for me picking on you, grow a pair.
I treat everyone here with the same amount of disdain.

Rossie1977, I don't believe that video was banned over this neck of the woods.
I've definitely seen it on tv.
Maybe it was only shown after the watershed though.

JC 2K3 · 23-09-2007 08:33PM

I didn't quote his whole post, if you go back and read it you'll see that my reply is mostly copied and pasted from the rest of his post.

MooseJam · 23-09-2007 08:36PM

Tha Gopher wrote:

They were still sh1t, hyped and irrelevant, no matter whether he did/didnt like the media.

you obviously just don't like them, that doesn't mean they were sh1t, they are legend

indough · 23-09-2007 08:55PM

lol at all the way this turned out into a bash at musical taste

squishywishy · 23-09-2007 10:13PM

Dont think it should have been banned! I think its about time taboo subjects were tackled in Irish society. The irish mentality is hide everything away and it'll be a-ok.....about time we used songs like this to talk about topics especially with young people who will talk about them anyway and as a result often become ill informed.

Sean Kingston's song being banned??

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